Alton School District Strategic Plan 2017-2021
David Benedetto, Community Cris Blackstone, ACS Administration Pam Forbes, Teacher Kristi Hikel, Parent Peter Leavitt, School Board Sandi MacDonald, Community Mike Major, Teacher Anna Ransom, Parent Pamela Stiles, SAU Administration Committee Members
Process Notification for interest, November/December, 2016 First Meeting, January 5, 2017 Second Meeting, January 26, 2017 Survey sent out, Feb/March, 2017 Third Meeting, March 17, 2017 Day Long Fourth Meeting, March 28, 2017 School Board Presentation, May, 2017
Getting Started Initial Work: Re-wrote District Mission Statement Created three supporting Belief Statements
Survey Feedback 65 Respondents; Community (14), Parents (26), ACS Employees (25) Questions: Would you like clarification on anything? What words do you consider most significant? Agree or Disagree with the Beliefs/Mission? Clarifications: risk taking, equitable opportunities, Alton Community Significant words: (ie) social/emotional health, positive relationships, relevant and meaningful experiences, personalized instruction, collaboratively, compassion, self-directed learner, nurturing, character
The Alton School District will create a nurturing environment in which everyone is empowered to: Develop character and compassion Show perseverance as a self-aware learner Seek and master the skills necessary to become a contributing global citizen. Mission Statement
Belief Statement #1 We believe the foundation for learning focuses on social emotional health, positive relationships and diversity in support of exploration, advancing confidence and self-reliance.
Goals and Action Steps (Belief #1) Goal 1: Provide team building experiences for everyone. Action Steps: Engage in team building activities at the beginning of the school year and several times thereafter. Examine, pilot, and design community building strategies for all grades for the purpose of increasing belonging and ownership. Develop and sustain a schoolwide student-generated newsletter each trimester. Goal 2: Celebrate achievements and learning schoolwide. Action Steps: Use bulletin boards, pictures, website, newspapers, social media, morning announcements, etc., to communicate achievements. Hold schoolwide (K-8) celebrations at least once each trimester. Utilize weekly classroom/team celebrations. Develop student-led opportunities for parents, community, and peers.
Goals and Action Steps (Belief #1) con’t Goal 3: Support the diversity and interests of individual students through daily adult connections. Action Steps: Conduct a student and adult interest survey at the beginning of the school year (administer to mid-year new registers). Assign students to staff members for daily interaction. Create a confidential communication “board” by which staff will share student concerns and ask questions. Use interest survey to drive such things as after school activity choices, outreach needs, personalized instruction, etc. Create opportunities for students to share their interests and expertise with others.
Belief Statement #2 We believe students should be exposed to opportunities for personalized, relevant and meaningful instruction, generating enthusiasm for learning.
Goals and Action Steps (Belief #2) Goal 1: Develop a curriculum that supports the integration of subject matter through “real - world” applications. Action Steps: Provide staff with professional learning time and money to review and update curriculum. Revisions should include real world applications, community outreach, and subject integration. Establish and review competency-based standards. Explore options for a schedule that promotes learning “anywhere, anytime, any path”. Goal 2: Design learning opportunities that will use varied instructional strategies to ensure personalized learning for all students . Action Steps: Develop a data-driven team process to create Individual Student Plans (ISPs). Develop a system of STEAM-based instructional strategies for all grades. Create and maintain an instructional database of local and online resources.
Goals and Action Steps (Belief #2) con’t Goal 3: Provide a variety of measurements to evaluate student growth, mastery, and depth of knowledge. Action Steps: Provide professional learning to enhance knowledge of designing and validating authentic assessments. Design report cards to reflect competencies for all content areas. Utilize both qualitative and quantitative data. Create an electronic portfolio for grades K-8.
Belief Statement #3 We believe a partnership with the Alton Community advances the growth of students, faculty, and staff by fostering opportunities to explore the world.
Goals and Action Steps (Belief #3) Goal 1: The Alton School District will demonstrate financial responsibility by sharing information and educating stakeholders regarding the budget. Action Steps: Assemble an annual budget review meeting to discuss warrant articles in support of the budget forum. Clearly state financial objectives on monthly school board meeting agenda. Goal 2 : The Alton School District will enhance communication between Alton Central School and the Community. Action Steps: Continue weekly newspaper articles and increase publicity as needed through additional media sources (social media, mobile app, texting, TV, radio, etc.). Improve the school/teacher websites by establishing a protocol and timeline for postings. Provide parent forums and/or resources to build an understanding of supports that can be provided at home. Showcase student work/projects in community locations (ie, Gilman Library, Town Hall, PMHS, SAU). Use audience-friendly language in all communications (test scores, financials, etc).
Goals and Action Steps (Belief #3) con’t Goal 3 : The Alton Central School will take advantage of local resources by weaving those resources into the curriculum. Action Steps: Build and utilize a network with the community: individuals, groups, and organizations. Take advantage of the community’s natural, government, and economic resources to enhance learning. Create a list of in-house and community resources (clothes, eye glasses, food, etc.) to have available each year.
Measuring Success
Updates A Tri-fold will be distributed to all staff and within the community. Finished plan will be posted on the website. Updates to the Board will be done mid-year and at the end of every school year.
Thank you. Questions? Where have we been? 2016-2017
2016-2017 School Board Goals • Goal 1: To increase individual student proficiency annually in reading and math using a minimum of three different school-determined assessments. • Goal 2: To recruit and retain highly qualified teachers to focus on math enrichment, excitement, and advancement that will promote a vision of ACS as a NH model school. • Goal 3: To communicate effectively with all stakeholders.
Goal 1: To increase individual student proficiency annually in reading and math using a minimum of three different school-determined assessments. • Established a schedule for the year-long benchmark testing in NWEA, Star, NECAP , and SBAC. Created regular opportunities for teachers to learn about data and use it to direct instruction. • Teachers meet monthly with the Curriculum Coordinator to discuss data, student progress and instructional adjustments. • Met weekly, then twice a month, with the Curriculum Coordinator to review student data, discuss professional development needs, technology assets, interventions, and instruction. • Established a scheduling committee, consisting of teachers and administrators, to craft a schedule for 2017-2018. • An Enrichment Committee was formed to utilize resources that were identified in 2015-2016. The Curriculum Coordinator was supported in her efforts to oversee the program.
WINTER BENCHMARK • Benchmark September, January, May When a student completes an NWEA • MAP assessment, he or she receives a • Using Star Early Literacy (grades K-1) RIT score. • “RIT” is an abbreviation for “Rausch • Star Reading (Grade 2) Unit.” The difficulty and complexity of each MAP assessment question is • NWEA Reading (Grades 3-8) measured using the RIT scale. A student’s RIT score indicates the level • NWEA Math (K-8) at which the student was answering questions correctly 50% of the time. It has the same meaning regardless of • grade level.
LITERACY K-2 Early Literacy Scaled Scores Skills in Early Literacy Assessment: 734 800 651 582 600 520 Visual Discrimination • • Phonemic Awareness 400 Phonics • 200 Vocabulary • 0 • Sentence-Level Comprehension Kindergarten Grade 1 Paragraph-Level Comprehension • Sept. 2016 Jan. 2017 Skills in Star Reading Assessment: Star Reading Scaled Scores 350 302 • Word Knowledge and skills 300 232 250 • Comprehension Strategies and Constructing 200 Meaning 150 • Analyzing Literacy Text 100 50 0 Grade 2 Sept. 2016 Jan. 2017
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